Got nuked by a very nice car this weekend - a mint Vauxhall Lotus Carlton only seen 1 or 2 on the road before

Very tidy, right hand drive example, nothing I could do to keep him behind me, though I put up a good noisy HKS fight Always nice when people are up for a play!

edited - doh yes it was a Lotus, not a 2.0 diplomat

 

Are we talking Lotus Carlton here?

 

I would assume so

MB

 

yourd be gutted if you found out it was a 1.8 gls

 

How much did it thump you buy. A few car lengths, bus lengths or are we talking in football pitches

 

Vauxhall Carlton?

 

http://www.lotus-carlton.fsnet.co.uk/Top10.htm

Read number 1 San.. that should explain it

 

didn't realise they were so rare in RHD form..

 

You see what happens Andy when you take the red / black logo off the steering wheel - you get a

handed to you.




Nice spot on the roads there - talk about rocking horse poop.

 

Ive been in one, wasnt a turbo though! still fast remember it being very fast, as a kid. Dont look too special now.

But as a fast sprog automobile id have one.